Project Management Archives - Enrico Fantaguzzi

How to sync two Google calendars

Project Management / By Enrico / June 28, 2022

If you too, like many, use two Google calendars 1 personal and one for work and you do not want to synchronize them manually, you can use an application to synchronize them. Unfortunately, however, this type of applications are paid, or rather have a freemium model for which you can synchronize one calendar at a time. Also on the Google discussion forum you can see that unfortunately there is no native way in Google Calendar to synchronize two calendars, if they have recently introduced it I don't know ...

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The effective use of Project Charter in the projects

Project Management / By Enrico / June 19, 2022

What is the project charter? The project charter is a document that contains in a synthetic way the answers to the fundamental questions of the project: what are the objectives of the project, the high-level requirements, the assumptions and the known risks from the beginning. Project charter meaning Project charter means 'guiding document' or project definition document. The project charter in the PMI methodology is comparable to the Project Initiation Document of the Prince 2 methodology Project Charter content The project charter is a document that describes at…

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Progressive elaboration and Rolling Wave Planning in waterfall Project Management methodology

Project Management / By Enrico / December 17, 2020

In the image we have a Work Breakdown Structure organized by phases, in which the activities in phase 1 are more detailed, ie they have a greater granularity, than the activities in the subsequent phases The progressive elaboration, or Rolling Wave Planning, consists in planning at a very detailed level the activities that are closest to us in time, and planning in a less detailed way the activities that are later in time. It is an extremely logical and resource…

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The Project Charter

Project Management / By Enrico / July 10, 2021

What is the project charter? The project charter is a document that contains in a synthetic way the answers to the fundamental questions of the project: what are the objectives of the project, the high level requirements, the assumptions and the known risks from the beginning. Project charter meaning Project charter means 'guiding document' or project definition document. The project charter of the PIM methodology is comparable to the Project Initiation Document of the Prince 2 methodology Project Charter in Italian The project charter is a document that describes what it consists of ...

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Scope è uguale a Ambito, Deliverable è simile a prodotto

Italian - English project management

Project Management / By Enrico / April 25, 2022

It hasn't been so long since I started to look out into the world of project management, it was 2004, and since then I have never stopped on the contrary ... First of all I studied it in Italian, at least to understand what it was all about. start was not easy. I spent a week of full immersion with a PMI-style project manager (PMI read PiEmAi which stands for Project Management Institute) and every night it was a headache, until ...

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3 reasons why Agile is NOT the solution to your project management problems

Project Management / By Enrico / February 25, 2020

Companies that fail to implement a project management methodology in the company adopt agile. Have you tried to introduce a project management methodology in the company, but the result was catastrophic? Have you heard that with the agile methodology it is possible to have a shorter time to market for your software project and do you believe it? Your projects that you have tried to manage with a traditional PM methodology such as PMP or Prince2 are all overdue and ...

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Progressive processing and Rolling Wave Planning in traditional Project Management methodologies

Project Management / By Enrico / March 11, 2022

For the Italian version click here In the image we have a Work Breakdown Structure organized by phases, in which the activities in phase 1 are more detailed, that is, they have a greater granularity, than the activities in the subsequent phases The progressive processing, or Rolling Wave Planning, it consists in planning at a very detailed level the activities that are closer to us in time, and planning in a less detailed way the activities that are later in time. It is an extremely logical and efficient concept in use ...

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3 ways to effectively track a project

Project Management / By Enrico / February 25, 2020

Now that you've created your beautiful thousand-line Gantt, it's time to implement the project. How can I track the progress of the activities? At what level of detail should the project manager go down? How to correctly estimate the time left to complete a task? In this article we answer these 3 questions. Method 1 Define the % of completion of an activity according to the following scheme: 0%: activity not started 10%: activity started 50%: activity in progress and online ...

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“Getting Things Done” in 9 points in Italian

Books, Management, Project Management / By Enrico / October 7, 2022

"If you haven't written it somewhere it's in your mind." "If something is occupying your mind, your head is not free." Everything unfinished must be captured in a reliable tracking system. You will log into this system regularly and update it. The system that David Allen has been talking about for me for years now is the issue list. To be precise, I think it was 2004 when I was working at Tod's that the IT Director taught me this ...

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Stick to the plan! Fare un piano e seguirlo

How to implement the Prince2 and PMI methodologies in the company. Project Management.

Project Management / By Enrico / June 19, 2022

The Prince2 and PMI project management methodologies are ideal for managing large projects, but they can also be adapted and used in the management of small or medium-sized projects, thanks to the possibility of adaptation that the methodologies themselves offer. In a world where the word Agile has become a mantra, it is not surprising that waterfall methodologies are seen as too rigid and sometimes even a little conservative. My very special opinion to ...

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